Reader Girls Blog

This is the second week of the  Something Wicked Returns Blog  hop. This cool blog hop runs for the entire month of October. This year's event is run by  Heidi@ Rainy Day Ramblings ,  Candace@Candace's Book Blog ,  Maja@The Nocturnal Library  and  Ali@My Guilty Obsession . For this week's post, Reader Girls is placing the spotlight on Donna Ansari, an author and editor. She edited  Urban Harvest,  Tales of the Paranormal in New York City ,  an urban fantasy anthology featuring paranormal stories that take place in New York City or one of its five boroughs. That could mean vampires, ghosts, and more! How cool is that? The great thing about  Urban Harvest  is editor Donna Ansari is giving the proceeds from this ebook to a very deserving charity,  City Harvest , an organization which helps to feed those in need. We are offering a Giveaway of an eBook copy of Urban Harvest and an Amazon gift card. Read all about this giveaway here   and enter below. Donna is

Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash Paranormal Mystery Thriller Paperback/eBook, 137 pages Published 2013 by Red Feather Publishing About the Book: Paul Russo’s wife just died. While trying to get his family’s life back in order, Paul is being tormented by a demon who is holding his wife's spirit hostage on the other side. His fate is intertwined with an old haunted mansion on the north shore of Long Island called Stillwell Manor. Paul must find clues dating back hundreds of years to set his wife's soul free. Purchase your copy at AMAZON About the Author: Born and raised on Long Island, Michael Phillip Cash has always had a fascination with horror writing and found footage films. He wanted to incorporate both with his debut novel, Brood X. Earning a degree in English and an MBA, he has worked various jobs before settling into being a full-time author. He currently resides on Long Island with his wife and children. Stillwell:

Everything You Know  by  Mary Beth Bass Release Date: 09/27/13 A dark forest, a screaming woman and blood. These are the images that haunt seventeen year old Emma from the moment she meets Joe Castlellaw. And so much more awaits. Emma Mathews never believed she was like everyone else, but neither did she think herself crazy. Meeting Joe Castlellaw, Henry Dearborn High’s newest student, was like waking on a cold rock in a strange place, the world bathed in liquid moonlight. Everything is different now…and fraught. Visions of a dark forest, a screaming woman and blood have begun to haunt Emma’s dreams, and not only at night. But Joe’s lonely beauty makes her float on air, and she would follow him anywhere—out of high school and through the great tree, to a world of poetry and political savagery, of magic and murder, to a life that is entirely theirs and yet unlike anything they have ever known. Excerpt: The sound came again, the gentle hum Emma heard befo

If I Stay by  Evan Reeves New Adult contemporary romance Release date: August 26th 2013 Purchase: Amazon | Goodreads Breakups suck. Gemma Davies, at twenty-two, has just learned this. It was also not what she had expected from her long-time and only boyfriend - ever. So when her best friend and roommate drags her out in hopes to help Gemma come alive again, the last thing she expects is to meet someone who manages to do just that. In a passionate night (on so many levels) that leaves her rattled long after she sneaks out of his hotel room. But because nothing in Gemma's whirl-wind life can ever go seamlessly, she soon runs into the man that she'd left naked and in bed just the evening before...in the most unexpected of places. The classroom. As her Professor. ...if only the surprises stopped there. Excerpt: As I stood there, hands in pockets and my eyes on the ground, looking at the little pieces of broken beer bottle glass that seemed to reflect